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Recently, we have derived an effective Cahn-Hilliard equation for the phase separation dynamics of active Brownian particles by performing a weakly non-linear analysis of the effective hydrodynamic equations for density and polarization…

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We describe a test particle approach based on dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) for studying the correlated time evolution of the particles that constitute a fluid. Our theory provides a means of calculating the van Hove…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-17 Paul Hopkins , Andrea Fortini , Andrew Archer , Matthias Schmidt

Equilibrium statistical mechanics is intended to link the microscopic dynamics of particles to the thermodynamic laws for macroscopic quantities. However, the modern statistical theory is faced with significant difficulties, as applied to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-15 A. G. Godizov , A. A. Godizov

A simple theoretical approach is used to investigate active colloids at the free interface and near repulsive substrates. We employ dynamical density functional theory to determine the steady-state density profiles in an effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-03 René Wittmann , Joseph M. Brader

A classical particle system coupled with a thermostat driven by an external constant force reaches its steady state when the ensemble-averaged drift velocity does not vary with time. The statistical mechanics of such a system is derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-02 Jie Yao , Yanting Wang

We perform a coarse-graining analysis of the paradigmatic active matter model, Active Brownian Particles, yielding a continuum description in terms of balance laws for mass, linear and angular momentum, and energy. The derivation of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-30 Jeffrey M. Epstein , Katherine Klymko , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

We show that one may view the self and the distinct part of the van Hove dynamic correlation function of a simple fluid as the one-body density distributions of a binary mixture that evolve in time according to dynamical density functional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-11-09 Andrew J. Archer , Paul Hopkins , Matthias Schmidt

We report the complete statistical treatment of a system of particles interacting via Newtonian forces in continuous boundary-driven flow, far from equilibrium. By numerically time-stepping the force-balance equations of a model fluid we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 R. M. L. Evans , R. A. Simha , A. Baule , P. D. Olmsted

A new first-principles statistical mechanics formulation is proposed to describe slow and dilated granular fluids, where prolonged intergranular contacts vitiate collision theory. The contacts, where all the important physics takes place,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-08 Raphael Blumenfeld

The authors present a study of the non equilibrium statistical properties of a one dimensional hard-rod fluid dissipating energy via inelastic collisions and subject to the action of a Gaussian heat bath, simulating an external driving…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Umberto Marini-Bettolo-Marconi , Pedro Tarazona , Fabio Cecconi

We give a variational formulation of classical statistical mechanics where the one-body density and the local entropy distribution constitute the trial fields. Using Levy's constrained search method it is shown that the grand potential is a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 Matthias Schmidt

An equilibrium theory of classical fluids based on the space distribution among the particles is derived in the framework of the energy minimization method. This study is motivated by current difficulties of evaluation of optical properties…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. D. Rohrmann

We develop a general theory for describing phase coexistence between nonequilibrium steady states in Brownian systems, based on power functional theory (M. Schmidt and J.M. Brader, J. Chem. Phys. 138, 214101 (2013)). We apply the framework…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-18 Philip Krinninger , Matthias Schmidt , Joseph M. Brader

To obtain further insight on possible power law generalizations of Boltzmann equilibrium concepts, a stochastic collision model is investigated. We consider the dynamics of a tracer particle of mass $M$, undergoing elastic collisions with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eli Barkai

A chain of kinetic equations for non-equilibrium one-particle, two-particle and $ s $-particle distribution functions of particles which take into account nonlinear hydrodynamic fluctuations is proposed. The method of Zubarev…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-13 I. R. Yukhnovskii , P. A. Hlushak , M. V. Tokarchuk

For open quantum systems, the Gaussian environmental dissipative effect can be represented by statistical quasi-particles, namely, dissipatons. We exploit this fact to establish the dissipaton thermofield theory. The resulting generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-04 Yao Wang , Zi-Hao Chen , Rui-Xue Xu , Xiao Zheng , YiJing Yan

We present an analysis of the stationary distributions of run-and-tumble particles trapped in external potentials in terms of a thermophoretic potential, that emerges when trapped active motion is mapped to trapped passive Brownian motion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-06 Francisco J. Sevilla , Alejandro V. Arzola , Enrique Puga Cital

A recently introduced particle-based model for fluid dynamics with effective excluded volume interactions is analyzed in detail. The interactions are modeled by means of stochastic multiparticle collisions which are biased and depend on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Ihle , Erkan Tuzel

When a fluid is subject to an external field, as is the case near an interface or under spatial confinement, then the density becomes spatially inhomogeneous. Although the one-body density provides much useful information, a higher level of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-14 S. M. Tschopp , F. Sammüller , S. Hermann , M. Schmidt , J. M. Brader

We study the stochastic motion of active particles that undergo spontaneous transitions between two distinct modes of motion. Each mode is characterized by a velocity distribution and an arbitrary (anti-)persistence. We present an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-07 M. Reza Shaebani , Heiko Rieger , Zeinab Sadjadi